Re: Bug#74715: ITP: Star Office -- Open Source Office Suite
On Mon, Oct 16, 2000 at 06:20:49PM -0300, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> > The main point of suggesting contacting upstream is because you have to
> > contact upstream sooner or later, so better do it sooner. In fact, the
> > author may have a completely valid reason why one should not package
> > something, e.g. if his program is in a highly alpha phase of development
> > and he doesn't want a slew of bug reports all of the sudden.
>
> So it should be more clear, so that the question is...
>
> "I'd like to package foobar. Is the 0.89 release ok, should I wait for a
> more stable?"
>
> instead of...
>
> "Hi, I'm contacting you in order to ask your permission to package foobar."
Euh, maint-guide says no such thing. It tells the prospective maintainer to
check if the upstream agrees. It actually makes no suggestions for a case
where they disagree...
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